Welborn Eviction Risk: Lower , Kansas City
Tract 20209040100 · Wyandotte County, KS · pop 2,859 · neighborhood within 1.4 mi
Tract 20209040100 sits in the Welborn area of Kansas City eviction risk, KS, carrying an eviction-risk score of 3.8/10. It is home to 2,859 residents. 40% are severely burdened past the 50% mark. That cohort absorbs no shock: one repair bill or one cut shift converts straight into arrears.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Kansas City and the region
Centroid at 39.1403, -94.6619 · click any tract to drill in
Why Welborn scores 3.8
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Welborn compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 88
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 94%Socioeconomic
- 97%Household composition
- 94%Racial/ethnic minority
- 31%Housing & transportation
HOLC grade: D: Hazardous (Redlined)
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade D meant Black, immigrant, and poor neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage credit. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 0%Grade B
- 41%Grade C
- 59%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Welborn. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 26.3%Housing insecurity
- 19.6%Utility-shutoff threat
- 31.9%Food insecurity
- 21.3%SNAP enrollment
- 15.7%Transit barriers
- 21.3%No health insurance
- 18.0%Frequent mental distress
- 36.9%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Welborn
The clearest offset is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. On the high side, court filing pressure reads 8.5/10.
Food insecurity runs 31.9% against 17.8% nationally. Well under the midpoint, state political climate reads 2/10. Housing insecurity runs 26.3% against 14.2% nationally.
The poverty rate is 19%, which in this model reads as reduced rent-recovery odds after a judgment. This ground was mapped D ("Hazardous") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Greater Kansas City. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above.
Nationally it ranks #52,479 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Of its three components the household composition measure is the most pressured. Rent takes 30% or more of income for 48% of renters.
It tracks the Wyandotte County average of 3.8 closely.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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